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    Publicization
    How Public and Private Interests Can Reinvent Education for the Common Good

    Jonathan Gyurko (Author)

    9780807769423

    Paperback / softback, published 22 March 2024

    224 pages
    22.9 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm, 0.272 kg

    How public are America's public schools? They may be tax funded and free, but the effects of market-based policies, exclusionary governance, insufficient funding, and structural inequities impair schools' ability to prepare future citizens, workers, neighbors, and stewards of the planet. Gyurko offers a fresh look at the "publicness" of American education through historical accounts, scholarly research, first-hand reporting, and political analyses. Chapters on funding, governance, standards, accountability, and equity show what must be done to better identify and strengthen the shared aims of public schools. Novel insights explain how even controversial topics like charter schools, testing, teacher tenure, and unions can be part of a broad "Publicization Project." Champions of public education will find a compelling vision and achievable roadmap that moves the country beyond decades of privatization. Publicization is an essential introduction to major debates of past decades with a hopeful vision of what it means to be an educated American.

    Book Features:

    • Speaks directly to political controversies affecting education including school choice, book banning, the "reading wars," board elections, critical race theory, and teacher unions.
    • Offers first-hand, never-before-reported accounts of high-profile efforts involving prominent political players including AFT president Randi Weingarten, former U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan, former NYC mayors Michael R. Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio and schools chancellor Joel I. Klein, Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, former PBS correspondent John Merrow, KIPP cofounder David Levin, late philanthropist Eli Broad, small schools founder Deborah Meier, and historian and activist Diane Ravitch.
    • Provides pragmatic recommendations that cross political divides,including a fresh look at charter schools, the role of unions and collective bargaining, parent involvement in school decision-making, standardized testing, and equity-advancing reforms.
    • Gathers the history of education ideas, thinkers, and past reforms to provide new generations of educators with a cogent summary of what has come before to inform what comes next.

    • Contents (Tentative)
    • Acknowledgements
    • Foreword
    • Introduction
      Privatization'
      s Antidote: PUBLIC-ization
      The Public Good
      Criteria of a "Public" Education
      A Political Project
      What Makes a School "Public"? Some Personal Perspectives
      A Primer, a Memoir, and a Playbook
    • The Exclusion Test
    • Part I: Criteria
    • 1.  
      Funding
      Private Interests Remain Entrenched
      The Strengths and Limits of Judicial Remedies
      A Question of Fairness
    • 2.  
      Facts and Beliefs
      School Choice, Private Beliefs, and the Risk to Public Goods
      The State'
      s Disreputable History in "Making" Americans
      The Risk of "Working it Out at the Polls"
      Facts as a Measure of a School'
      s Publicness
    • 3.  
      Governance
      A Framework for Democratic Education
      Getting Politics Out of Education
      Private Interests Fill the Void
      "Exit" Is Not "Voice"
      Putting Politics Back Into Education
      Rules of the Road
      Following the Rules of the Democratic "Game," Over and Over
      Trust Over Time Versus Winner-Takes-All
      Pressure Politics: How Do We Know?
    • 4.  
      Standards and Testing
      A Nation at Risk and the Rise of Standards
      Taxes Versus Accountability
      Economics Invades Education
      A Reformers'
      Connecticut Adventure
      The Wrong Lesson to Draw From a Modest Victory
    • 5.  
      Accountability
      The Profession'
      s Obligations
      Pre-Professional Accountability
      The Polity'
      s Responsibilities
      Employment Accountability
      School-Based Commitments
      Student Performance
      How Will You Know, John?
    • 6.  
      Equity
      Defining Equity
      Structural Inequity From "The Cult of Efficiency": The Industrial Paradigm of Schooling
      A Brief History of Progressive Alternatives to the Industrial Paradigm
      The Industrial Paradigm Re-Wrapped: The "Cult of Innovation"
      For Consideration: An Intellectual-Emotional Paradigm
      Intellectual Capacities
      Emotional Capacities
      The Intrinsic Equity of an Intellectual-Emotional Paradigm
      A Political, Not an Educational, Problem
    • Part II: Cases
    • 7.  
      Charter Schools
      The Publicness of Charter School Funding
      The Publicness of Charter School Curriculum
      The "Charter School Compact" and Its Complicity in the Industrial Paradigm
      Competition and the Conservative Agenda
      Charter Schools and the Teacher Unions
      Making Charter Schools More Public
      "Invisible" Versus "Helping" Hands: Community-Based Charter Schools
      Charter Schools and the Progressive Agenda
      Finding Common Ground in the Common Good
    • 8.  
      Teacher Unions
      Education Portfolios and Competition at the Apex of Education Policy
      Out Reforming the Reformers: The United Federation of Teachers
      The Creative Entanglements of Union-Run Charter Schools
      A Mixed Result
      A Crash Course in in Labor History, Politics, and Practice
      Mission Accomplished? The Role of Teacher Unions in Making Schools More Public
      Next-Stage Teacher Unionism
    • 9.  
      Conclusion
      What If It Comes Out "Wrong"?
      Making a Movement
    • Endnotes
    • Index
    • About the Author
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